mkjv@Titus:1:5 @ For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,
mkjv@Titus:1:6 @ if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient.
mkjv@Titus:1:7 @ For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;
mkjv@Titus:1:8 @ but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,
mkjv@Titus:1:9 @ holding fast the faithful word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.
mkjv@Titus:1:10 @ For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of [the] circumcision,
mkjv@Titus:1:11 @ whose mouth [you] must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.
mkjv@Titus:1:12 @ One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
mkjv@Titus:1:13 @ This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,
mkjv@Titus:1:14 @ not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men, turning away from the truth.
mkjv@Titus:1:15 @ To the pure all things [are] pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
mkjv@Titus:1:16 @ They profess that they know God, but in [their] works they deny [Him], being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.